Ultimate Man-Made Wave

“This is head and shoulders over what people have seen before,” said Dave Prodan, spokesman for the World Surf League. “I think the excitement is around — wow — this is really getting close to replicating the energy that we see at some of the world’s best waves of that size.”

The biggest appeal of an artificial wave such as the one that Slater is riding is the chance to give surfers time “inside the tube.”